True Hauntings

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SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey This is the second part of our deep dive into a deeply disturbing poltergeist story which happened in Guyra, Australia. This little township found itself in the spotlight during the time of the poltergeist attacks on the family. Ann...

SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey The Ostrich Inn has seen it's fair share of murders over the years, with over 60 committed here. Most famous of all were those committed in the 13th century by the landlord, Mr Jarman, who made a very profitable sideline b...

In this first half of the Guyra Ghost story Anne and Renata look at the back story, the family and what was happening that culminated in a perfect storm of poltergeist activity in a tiny little township called Guyra in Australia. This is a story that will be thought provoking, sad and horrifying. It became world wide news and changed the family at the centre of this story forever. Follow Anne and...

The owner, employees and guests at Sauk Centre’s Palmer House Hotel have been plagued by a strange, debilitating and demonic energy – an energy that owner Kelly Freese believes originates in the hotel basement. This should come as no surprise to those who are familiar with the hotel’s history: The current hotel was built after the old Sauk Centre house burned to the ground, consuming many lives in...

Transylvania has long been known as a place where vampires, werewolves, and the souls of the dead haunt dark forests and spooky-looking fortresses, Bran Castle being one of the most famous and most beautiful. The Castle has been associated with Vlad the Impaler, the real Dracula, but did Vlad actually stay there? Who is the royal ghost that does haunt the Castle and are all the stories about it tr...

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SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey It all began with a 13-year-old boy, a bookish child born to a German American Protestant family in 1948. An alleged true haunting went on the catch the imagination of a creative writer named William Blatty while he was still at Uni...

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Three film students go to Burkittsville Maryland to make a documentary on the Blair Witch legend. Mysteriously all three go missing and a year later all that is recovered is footage of their last days in the woods. Their bodies have never been found. What really happened to these three teenagers? What is the Blair Witch legend? Did this really happen? Find out the truth in this week's episode of T...

SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey This is Part Two of our podcast on Borley Rectory - listen in to the first episode if you haven't already and then come back to listen to our wrap up of what we think may be going on. Follow Anne and Renata: Facebook: @AnneAndRenata...

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Anna Elisabeth "Anneliese" Michel was a German woman who underwent 67 Catholic exorcism rites during the year before her death. She died of malnutrition, for which her parents and priest were convicted of negligent homicide. Her parents believed that Annelise was possessed by a demonic force. Was she really? Could there have been anything done to save Annelise or had it just all gone too far? In t...

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The Hoia Baciu forest is probably the most famous place in Romania. People believe the forest could be under some powerful curse and even a place where the Devil wanders free! Upon entering you can experience nausea, anxiety, skin burns and headaches. UFO have been sighted, there is a strange part of the forest where 'nothing grows' and trees look tortured and distressed. The ladies have toured th...

SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey Nestled in the quaint small town of Junee, NSW, there lies a grand, sprawling property with a past so dark it’s become a ghost-hunter’s playground and the breeding ground of stories from the unexplainable to the just plain bone-chil...